About the book: 2024 / The legendary fantasy cycle that stands next to Dune and The Lord of the Rings. For the first time in Russian, one of the best cycles of the classic fantasy Jack Vance - the Lioness trilogy. The first volume contains the novel "The Garden of Princess Suldrun". The story is dedicated to the Oldest Islands, which existed before King Arthur, and now lie at the bottom of the Atlantic. A world where sorcerers, fairies, knights and lords weave palace intrigues. The cruel King Casmir wants to gain power over all ten warring kingdoms and is ready to use even his own daughter for his own purposes. When she refuses, he locks her in the royal garden, where she meets her love - the missing prince of one of the states. Ten kingdoms of the Old Isles, located near Britain, Ireland and Aquitaine, vie with each other for power. The ruthless King Casmir of Lyonesse intends to make alliances by marrying off his beautiful daughter Suldrun. But Suldrun, who has the same determination as her father, challenges him and his ambitious plans. Casmir imprisons her in a wild garden, her favorite place, and it is here that she will meet her love, which will lead to tragedy. “Take a doomed princess, a disenfranchised prince and an evil king, a vengeful magician and a sad witch, add fairies, ogres, magical creatures, treacherous barons, wanderers who are not what they seem, robbers, orphans and a race of harsh warriors at war with all humanity. Add politics, conspiracies, murders, battles and sieges, and then set it all in a mythical archipelago across the western sea and before the time of King Arthur. Jack Vance weaves together the threads of fairy tales and pagan myth, weaving an epic tapestry of adventure and intrigue across the Oldest Isles. And the result is a masterpiece." – Matthew Hughes “The author's vintage work is the best that has ever been written. Vance never disappoints." – Frank Herbert “A modern classic from one of the greatest writers of fantasy and science fiction.” – Raymond Faist “One of the best and most influential science fiction writers of the 20th century.” – Terry Pratchett